Summum Bonum and Judgments
For more details on this topic, see Intrinsic value (ethics)#Life stances and intrinsic value.Judgments on the highest good have generally fallen into four categories:
- Utilitarianism, when the highest good is identified with the maximum possible psychological happiness for the maximum number of people;
- Eudaemonism or Virtue Ethics, when the highest good is identified with flourishing;
- Rational Deontologism, when the highest good is identified with virtue or duty;
- Rational Eudaemonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good.
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